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Pete, himself, did a series of programming related visual puns. The ACCU lightning talks seem to have become a forum for speakers to challenge each other to do sillier, funnier or more off-beat presentations each year! This time saw Dom Davis spend most of his five minutes talking about USB connection standards – all to set up reciting an extract from Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, “ Thunderbolt and Lightning, very very frightening, me” (and it continues). In the evening there was an hour of lightning talks, hosted by the shoeless Pete Goodliffe! In fact there were lightning talks every evening (except Saturday), but this was the only session I was present for, so I had requested that my submission be on that night. You might want to watch one of the other versions of it I have recorded, such as the one from CPPP last December. For anyone that was watching that stream – sorry about that. There were some complaints that it was not quite readable in places, but I think it just about worked. This year it was not just recording that was impacted – but the online attendees were relying on that stream to be able to see my slides at all! Eventually we had to give up and they pointed a camera at the projector screen and streamed that. In fact the main display was fine – but connecting to Jim’s video capture device (or devices, he tried a couple) had a lot of issues. These machines caused a bit of a stir for bringing back several non-USB-C ports, including an HDMI port – so I thought I would have less trouble with connecting to a display.

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Since the last time I have presented at an in-person event I have bought a new Macbook Pro (M1 Pro). We had a slightly delayed start due to some technical difficulties. He had just gone through an extended, and entertaining, setup for why the role of mentoring is so important, and I have to say I agree with that. I did see the first 30 minutes of Guy Davidson’s opening keynote, which had been excellent up to that point – so I will definitely be finishing it in video form later. Traditionally two of the five tracks have been C++ specific, and the others have been about other languages and technologies, as well as less technical things, such as agile practices – but almost always accessible to a C++ audience, which is still very strongly represented at ACCU. On day two I was more focused on the Sonar booth – then had to leave before the end of the day as I was off on a family holiday the next day! So I’ll cop out and say that I’m familiar enough with many of the regular speakers and the types of content they were presenting that I’m 100% sure that 2022 continued to be an exceptionally high quality conference year – both for C++ developers and others. On the first day, I was focused on getting ready for my own talk, at the end of the day, and a lightning talk after that. As a conference organizer myself, who has been navigating many of the same things (also in collaboration with Jim) I have an idea of just how huge a task that is – with so many possible ways to fail! Other than a handful of minor hitches, from what I saw everything went remarkably smoothly!īut what about the content? Well, personally, I didn’t get to see many of the talks. Kudos to Jim and Jonathan Roper, and the others at Digital Medium, for doing a great job of that while also handling the recording and streaming on the in-person side, this year. I heard from several people, however, that the recreation of the physical venue in Gather Town was very impressive and helped them to keep more connected to the in-person event. I didn’t really interact with the online component, though, except for some minimal interactions on the Discord server. But that means that the 2022 event was the first in-person ACCU event since 2019! Actually about half of the attendees were still online, as it was a hybrid event. I was obviously disappointed that 2020 had to be canceled – it was too short notice at the time to transform it to an online event. So ACCU is a conference very close to my heart. It was the first programming conference I started attending, and also where I launched my speaking career in 2004, speaking at every one since 2009. I’ve been attending ACCU conferences since 2001, and I don’t believe I have missed one since 2009 (except for 2020, when the whole event was canceled). The ACCU conference returned in hybrid mode this year.

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